Huntsville gazette., 1887-03-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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prominent Wall street firm in New York.
THE French Chamber of Deputiesh as
passed the bill increasing import duties on
dour and several other articles.
FRANK N. ScoTT, cashier OF the publish
ing house of Webster Il Co., of Now York.
was arrested on the 18th, charged with
embezzling $4,000 from the firm. He was
committed to Jail in default of $40, ,OOo bail
The firm are the publishers of General
Grants memoirs.
TIE yachts Coronet eand Dauntless
sailed from New York on their cham pion-
ship race across the Atlantic on the 18th
The start was very favorable one. 1t is
stated that half a million dollars are
staket on the result, mostly at even
money.
The remains of the late Henry Ward
Beecher were finally laid to rest in Green
wood cemetery on the 18th.
The remains of the late General WILL
lam King Loring, who died in New York
on December 80 last, were disinterred on
on the 14th aud removed to Jacksonville
Fla, where they will be finally inferred
in the new cemetery at that place with
grand ceremony
BURNETT TIFFANY, son OF the famous
New York jeweler, who recently married
Bertha Pearson, Of the National Opera
Company, has, at the instigation of his
relatives. deserted his bride and left for
Europe.
A SENSATION was created in the Nova
Scotia Legislature, on the 18th, by Mr.
McColl, member for Picton, boldly an
nouncing himself as secessionist and
annexationist.
Hon. JOHN C. NEW was reported on the
18th to have been stricken with paralysis,
but later reports proved the story to have
been the result of mistake or Imagination.
The religious marriage ceremony be-
tween Christine Nelson and Count Mi
randa, took place at the Madeline, Paris,
on the 18th
SHARP earthquake shocks were felt in
southern France and in the Rivera on the
18th
A. DE LEssEPs has been made quite q
lion of during his recent visit to Berlin
He had a long conference with Prince
Bismarck on the 18th.
THE Treasury Department has decided
that certain vulcanita, lockwood and nick
el-plated cases containing clinical ther-
mometers used by the medical profession
for taking the temperature of the human
body, are entitled to free entry.
THE condition ON the PonsOnby and 9TH
er estates in Ireland is described as little
short of insurrectiOn.
EDWARD UNGER,- who murdered August
Bohle at New York and cut him up, is 60
ing insane from the constant torture Of
dreaming of his victim.
1T is rumored that Minister Manning is
soon to send in his resignation as Minister
to Mexico, and that Secretary Of Legation
Connery is to succeed him.
gsAsflsEs. WILEzRsoN tells the story over
again in Washington paper of how he
paid Henry Ward Beecher $4,000 for a
Life OF Christ, which was never written.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has signed Pc
tition to A. M. Palmer asking for per-
1ormance Of Jim the Penman" at the cap
ltal for an actors fund benefit.
TIE chances of leading candidates for
spring racing events, including the Subur-
ban, the Withers and the Kentucky Derby,
are engrossing the attention Of turfmen
at present
WARRANTS are out for the arrest Of
Fathers Keller and Murphy, two Irish
priests, who have been very friendly to
tenants who resisted rent collection.
JOnS FUNK, aged thirty-five, of Colum-
bia, Pa, was struck by train on the Penn
sylvania road, half a mile above thattown
early on the morning of the 10Th, and was
decapitated.
FIRE destroyed Korn's hotel, two-and-
a-half-story frame structure at Camden,
N j., On the night Of the 12th and three
children were burned to death. Charles,
Frederick and Eddie Bearle, aged from
seven to ten years, were the names of the
victims.
PENDING a decision by the Attorney
General of the question as to whether the
cruisers Chicago, Atlanta and Boston can
be completed by the Navy Department
in view of the failure of Congress to make
a specific appropriation for the purpose,
all work on the vessels has been sus-
pended.
NORTH CAROLINA proposes to enforce
her drummers' tax law
The citizens of Brooklyn are starting
the Beecher monument project
TIE remains Of the late Captain James
B. Eads arrived at Jacksonville. Fla, on
the 14th.
THE Boyd and Crawford lumber con-
Germs of Cincinnati have failed with
heavy liabilities.
The London Standard, an organ of the
Conservative party, seems to be much an
moved at the course of Joseph Cham ber-
lain.
Much alarm exists in California because
of the reports of smallpox epidemic at
Los Angeles.
THE suit by the Federal Government TO
annul the Bell telephone patents has at
last been begun at Boston.
THERE are contradictory reports con-
cerning the alleged attempt to assassinate
the Car on the 18th.
FRANK MoREY, alias Williams, who
was lost to his relati YES over thirty years
and found recently, is now claimed by a
prominent Kentuckian as an adopted
child.
AN archaeological institute for the
American colony was dedicated at Athens
on the 14th.
A WRECK, with worse horrors than those
at White River Junction, occurred near
Boston on the 14th, in which upwards OF
thirty people were killed and many more
injured.
UNITED STATES SENATOR SHERMAN and
other distinguished American excursion
lists arrived at Havana on the 14th.
NINE. FARGET died at Montreal, on the
14th, of injuries received by the bursting
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